The 'Bringing Home the Bacon' badge in the March 2014 Issue of The Food Network Magazine

Badges in the Dec/Jan 2011 issue of Bust Magazine

full page feature in Frankie Magazine (issue 36, July/August, 2010).

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BE PROUD was a collection of handmade merit badges inspired by idioms that honoured our everyday triumphs and missteps.

This collection was started in 2007 as a tribute to a discarded Brownie sash found at a thrift store in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The aim was to make badges that would be more near and dear and less disposable then those most familiarly earned. I illustrated, silkscreened, hand painted, hand embroidered, and machine stitched each badge together.

Below is the collection in its entirety. I stopped producing Be Proud badges in 2016 and retired the whole collection. While most are now gone forever, a few still remain in deadstock. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in purchasing.